Compact red–green–blue beam illuminator and expander

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1229-1235

  Shechter, Revital ^a   Bokor, Nandor ^a,b   Amitai, Yaakov ^a   Friesem, Asher A ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; CROSSTALK; DEMULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL RECORDING;

BEAM EXPANDER; BEAM ILLUMINATOR;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0036507796     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.001229     Document Type: Article

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